Financial Accountant – 12 Month FTC recruitment
The ideal candidate will be a strong financial accountant, familiar with financial processes, IFRS, general ledger controls, balance sheet reporting and substantiation.
Responsibilities
- Set up of chart of accounts for the company on Oracle including cost centres for appropriate reporting
- Oversight of all financial accounting activities in the legal entity
- Responsible for the accurate accounting controls
- Decision support for Global Accounting issues / queries
- Key involvement in IFRS conversion for these entities
- Complete ownership of month end tasks
- Preparation of month end files to support certification
- Analysis of Balance Sheet and PL (daily monthly)
- Analysis and understanding of intercompany balances and group eliminations
- Accounting for ‘Joint Venture’ operation on a daily basis
- On-going enhancement and documentation of daily / monthly control processes
Qualifications/Skills
- ACA qualified, with significant accounting PQE (or equivalent)
- Good IFRS knowledge
- Financial reporting (statements, disclosures) experience
- Understanding of technical accounting for consolidations and ideally also for treasury products
Responsibilities
- Audit back ground very strongly preferred, ideally working on small financial services companies covering all aspects of the audit and financial reporting
- Technical accounting experience, including consolidations of companies and treasury products
- Good knowledge of IFRS
- Experience with accounting ledger systems (e.g. Oracle, SUN)
- Knowledge of FX, treasury, Futures useful but not required
- Good understanding of accounting standards (UK/USGAAP )
- Understand of Sox requirements and balance sheet certifications
- Experience with sub ledgers and source systems
- Exposure to operational processes an advantage (Cash settlement, Nostros)
- Stakeholder management and decision support experience
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel ( Access an advantage)
August 15, 2012
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